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Posted March 13, 2013, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, IT Security
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday yielded an interesting security fix for a glaring vulnerability in how the Windows kernel handles USB device enumeration. The critical vulnerability allowed potential hackers with physical access to a Windows PC to run arbitrary code with system…
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Posted January 21, 2013, 6:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, Microsoft
It was recently revealed that Windows 8 was running on 1.64 percent of all computers worldwide as of December according to data from Net Applications. Here we are just a couple of weeks later and that figure has already jumped…
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Posted January 2, 2013, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft
Microsoft recently received some promising news in terms of market share as both Windows 7 and Windows 8 saw notable gains as 2012 came to a close. According to Net Applications, Windows 8 gained 0.66 percentage points in December, bringing…
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Posted November 7, 2012, 2:51 AM by Per Hansson | Filed in TechSpot, Software
Last weekend I was feeling a bit nostalgic and fired up Windows 2000 on my home computer. Win2k has a special place in my heart. Sadly, due to planned obsolescence it's no longer possible to use this fantastic operating system with the latest software available.

Be that as it may, what annoys me even more are the "improvements" made to Windows search through the years. The search box in Windows 2000 is very powerful, there are no cute animations and there are no exclusions. It's just no-nonsense search, as you would expect it to be. I'm afraid to say, Windows search has got worse, and not better over the years, 8 included.
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Posted September 3, 2012, 2:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Microsoft With Video
More than three years after its debut Windows 7 has finally overtaken Windows XP as the world’s most widely used operating system, according to market research firm Net Applications. Market share for the decade-old XP steadily declined from 61.91% in…
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Posted July 16, 2012, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security, Software
Symantec has reported that a recent antivirus update caused a number of PCs running Windows XP to crash. The conflict is said to affect Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 software designed for business clients, resulting in the all-too-familiar blue screen of…
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Posted July 2, 2012, 11:38 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Recent data from analytics company StatCounter shows that Windows 7 has obtained more than half of the worldwide operating system market for the first time. The OS surpassed Windows XP as the most popular choice globally in October 2011 but…
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Posted August 24, 2011, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Microsoft shipped the first copies of Windows XP to PC manufacturers 10 years ago today. Short for “eXPerience”, the successor to Windows 2000 and Windows Me eventually became the most popular operating system of all time.
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Posted August 2, 2011, 10:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft
Free antivirus software provider Avast has released information from a six-month study which reveals that Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system is home to 74% of their customers’ rootkit infections.
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Posted August 1, 2011, 5:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Microsoft, Software
At the end of July 2011, Microsoft can say that Windows XP finally fell below the 50 percent mark. In other words, Redmond's decade-old operating system is now used by less than half of all Internet users.
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Posted June 8, 2011, 8:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Microsoft, Apple
Apple has decided not to support Windows XP for its iCloud synchronization service, revealed earlier this week. Given that iCloud's predecessor, MobileMe, supported XP just fine, this is a minor shock, though it makes sense.
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